We’re looking for images of the world’s invertebrates – from snails to spiders, beetles to butterflies or corals to crabs. Show us your best photos to help promote invertebrate conservation and to be in with a chance of winning some brilliant prizes!

Other prizes to be won

The best images will be displayed at a special exhibition at ZSL London Zoo in August 2012. Photographers whose images are selected will receive a pair of tickets to London Zoo to attend the photographic exhibition.

The winner and runners up will also receive a copy of ZSL’s report on the status and trends of invertebrates.

If you’re in need of some inspiration, explore the amazing variety of invertebrates on ARKive as well as some of the fabulous entries we’ve received so far. ..

The deadline to enter the competition is 20th July 2012. Entries received after this date may still be used by ARKive, ZSL and IUCN (please see further information below).

We look forward to receiving your images of the world’s invertebrates. Good luck!

Terms and conditions for use of imagery by ARKive, IUCN and ZSL

All submitted images will be held in the repositories at ARKive, where they are being preserved and maintained for the benefit of future generations, and made available for non-commercial awareness-raising and educational purposes via the ARKive website. ARKive does not sell photographs, but rather the ARKive website acts as a showcase for image providers, displaying copyright and contact details with every image, as well as links to each media donor’s own web activities. See ARKive’s full terms and conditions.

The electronic copies of the images provided to ARKive may be made available to IUCN for electronic publishing on the IUCN Red List and the Amazing Species websites.

IUCN and ZSL may use images in electronic press-releases and resulting news stories promoting, for example, the IUCN Red List and the ZSL report on invertebrate status and trends.

ZSL may use the images in its report on invertebrate status and trends to be launched at Jeju, and related exhibitions, as specified in the letter above IUCN may also use the images in, for example, reports on the IUCN Red List. Copyright holders will be contacted prior to these activities.

Copyright holders will be acknowledged in any use of their images.

The images on the IUCN Red List websites and in associated IUCN and ZSL electronic products, as listed above, will be low-resolution (no larger than roughly 480×320) and will be clearly marked with a copyright notice. In addition, the Red List website ‘Terms of Use’ will include a restriction that those wishing to republish or otherwise use the images found on the Red List website or in Red List products should contact the copyright holders directly for approval for such use. ZSL terms and conditions for website use can be viewed at http://www.zsl.org/info/legal/content/general-terms,208,AR.html

Thanks for your message. There is no limit on the number of images you can enter, however we would recommend that you only enter your very best images. If known, please can you include the species and common name, as well as the location and when the photograph was taken.

Please submit your entries directly to ARKive at the following email address: invertphotocomp@wildscreen.org.uk. If you would like to submit a few images, we can provide you with access to a file transfer site to make your submission process easier, just drop us an email and we will send you an upload link.

Thanks,

The ARKive Team

Merel(June 25th, 2012 at 8:49 pm):

Can also people from outside the UK enter this competition? I am from the Netherlands.

Hi Kristy,
When you email in your entry please could you include your name and best contact email address. If known, please can you also include the species and common name, as well as the location and when the photograph was taken.

Please email the ARKive Research Team at invertphotocomp@wildscreen.org.ukm requesting a link to our file transfer site. With regards to image size, if an entry is coming via email then 5MB is fine for our email system to cope with and Jpgs are fine as a format.

Please email the ARKive Research Team at invertphotocomp@wildscreen.org.ukm requesting a link to our file transfer site if you would like to submit more than one image. With regards to image size, if an entry is coming via email then 5MB is fine for our email system to cope with and Jpgs are fine

With regards to image size, if an entry is coming via email then 5MB is fine for our email system to cope with and Jpgs are fine as a format. Winners will be contacted at a later date for a request for high resolution images.